When we're smart, we can think through and figure out why it won't work; we can see all of the problems. If we hit a future problem that we currently don't have the knowledge to address, we may stop what we're doing and prepare for a future problem while not making progress on the task at hand. That's not a real scenario, just a possibility. Which is a great segue into our main topic...

We will be discussing the story today. The story that we write is the story that we live. If we live in fears, fears happen, when we can inspect and overcome and write a new story, then the new story can come true. The options are endless, and it works in many ways. There is no "correct" way; there are examples from before that can be modeled, but damn life is so different from each one to the next. I imagine as I get older, I will stop thinking I'm so special and my life is some unique version of hard so your solutions can't possibly work for me because my life is different, my problems are different, and it makes sense because we truly are all unique individuals who see the world through an inimitable lens.

We all know that our perception of reality is based on the current setting of our lens. When scanning for the good, my brain sees good; the opposite is also true. The amazing point of it all is that what we think becomes reality. I have a theory.

The theory goes: by writing, I can put the future in motion. Writing the good stuff, the hopeful stuff, the way I want it to be, sets that future in the motion. Just a theory. Although, the evidence is strong, and historical writings support this theory. It goes with prayer, religion, agnostic versions of the same thing that writing, speaking, and hearing the hopeful, thinking on the hopeful, praying for the hopeful, focusing the mind on something and trusting through faith that the future will unfold for our benefit and according to our wishes, prayers, writings, meditations. These are all feeling as though they get their power from the same source, and its almost a law that it works. It works for everyone in their own world. Not everyone accomplishes this. But some might say the goal is the elimination of suffering, and the elimination of suffering is obtained through the removal of desires, through acceptance and peace. To me, that feels more like the life of an animal, living in the blissful peace of ignorance. Man was gifted this ability to think, only for him to desire the to return to a state of not thinking, and the lifelong task of battling and overcoming thoughts, desires, self-imposed mental suffering, and the like, all with a desire to return to a simple state that removes desires and suffering. We started in that place, and we are trying to return to that place without leaving this place, it's a fool's errand, the Sisyphus of it all.

Same dilemma with money. I'm content to sit here and be with my family and work on some cool projects and learn and grow with the family, helping people and just making it a happy life. Then I get in my head that I need all this more stuff, and I gotta have all that more money and stuff so that I can sit here with my family and work on some cool projects and learn and grow with the family.